Xiaodong Sun's research while affiliated with Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention and other places

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Mass Gatherings and Public Health Mass gatherings are highly visible events with the potential for serious health and political consequences if not managed carefully and effectively.¹⁻⁴ Mass gatherings have been reported to have significant impact upon public health systems throughout the world.⁵⁻¹⁰ International mass gathering events, such as tho...
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Reports of health issues related to mass gatherings around the world have indicated a potential for public health and medical emergencies to occur on a scale that could place a significant impact on business continuity for national and international organisations. This paper describes a risk assessment process for business continuity management tha...

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... The PPR was 2.0, while the most common cases concerned wounds, purulent cysts (blisters), headaches, fainting, high fevers/allergies, injuries, ophthalmological problems, and insect stings. Sun, Keim, He, Mahany, and Yuan (2013) studied the case of Shanghai Expo 2010, the largest mass gathering in global history that lasted six months (182 days) and attracted 70 million visitors to a city of 20 million people. Overall 97,708 visitors sought on-site medical care and 97,059 people were examined by doctors. ...
... With respect to local and regional collaboration around global health security, the literature highlighted the importance of engaging civil society and privatesector stakeholders, law enforcement, the intelligence community, academia, and political leaders [41,42,48,49]. The extent to which these non-public health entities could serve as another indicator of the robustness of a country's collaborative health security efforts. ...